Egg-cup.



Patentadlar. l9, i90l. 6. WATZ.

No. 670,26l.

(Application flied Dec- 4, 1900.)

(No Model.)

Unites STATES ATENT FFICE.

CHARLES \VATZ, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO JOHN MAUSER, OF SAME PLACE.

EGG-CUP.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent N o. 670,261, dated March 19, 1901.

Application filed December 4:, 1900. Serial No. 38,709. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES WATZ, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, borough of Bronx,in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Cups, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved article for household use which can be taken apart to form two eggcups and which can be connected in such manner as to form a body in the shape of an egg for storing away when not required for use; and the invention consists of a double egg-cup which is composed of two oval bowls and detachable feet, one for each bowl, adapted to be inserted into socket-holes of the bowl at the outside for use or at the inside for being stored away, the size of the feet being such as to permit their being contained within the bowls when the latter are connected at their rabbeted rims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective view of my improved double egg-cup shown as connected together in the form of an egg. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same. Figs. 3 and 4 show, respectively, in side elevation and vertical section the two egg-cups formed by the device; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of one of the cups with its foot therein for storing away.

Similar letters of reference indica'te corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A A represent two oval bowls, which are provided with rabbeted rims a a, the rim of one bowl being rabbeted at the outside and the other at the inside, so that the two rabbeted rims may be joined together, to form an egg-shaped body, as shown in Fig. 1. The ends or apices of the bowls A A are provided with sockets, into which are inserted the correspondinglyshaped ends of the supporting-feet B B,which are made detachable from the bowls, so as to be readily inserted into the socket-holes h from either the inside or outside of the bowls,

as desired. When the bowls A are detached from each other and the feet placed into the socket-holes in the apices of the bowls at the outside of the latter, two separate egg-cups are obtained, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. When the feet are inserted into the socketholes from the inside and the rabbeted rims of the bowls connected together, an egg-shaped body is obtained, as in Fig. 1, in which form both egg-cups are stored away.

The device can be made of boxwood or other similar hard wood or of sheet metal, porcelain, white metal, or other suitable material. It forms a neat and convenient article for household use, as it permits the ready formation of two egg cups from one structure. When it is not desired to place both feet B B into the bowls and connect the latter, one foot only may be placed in its bowl, while the other remains in its outside position in the other bowl, so that the device can be placed in upright position in the closet for being stored away.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. An egg-cu p, consisting of two oval bowls provided with rabbeted interlocking rims,and with socket-holes in their apices, and detachable feet, one for each bowl, adapted to fitin said socket-holes, substantially as set forth.

2. An eggcup, consisting of two oval bowls provided with rabbetedinterlocking rims and with socket-holes in their apices, and detachable feet adapted to fit from the outside or inside into the socket-holes of the bowls and of such size as to be contained within the bowls, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES WATZ.

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, JOSEPH H. NILES. 

